Bold New Commitments Announced by Thousands of States, Regions, Cities, Businesses, Investors and NGOs Focus Turns to UN Climate Conference in Poland and UN Secretary General’s Leaders’ Summit in 2019 For a chronological, full list of announcements – please...

Frank Bainimarama, the Prime Minister of Fiji and COP23 President, and Jerry Brown, Governor of California, hosted a high-level Talanoa Dialogue on 12 September 2018 on the rapid transition to net-zero emission societies. The high-level event set the stage for GCAS by...

San Francisco, CA. Today at the Global Climate Action Summit, the Powering Past Coal Alliance has warmly welcomed 10 new States, Regions and Cities into the growing membership of the Alliance. These new members demonstrate growing global momentum behind the phase-out...

We, the people gathered at the Global Climate Action Summit, and communities around the world calling for climate action, commit to a climate-safe future for all. The climate crisis calls for urgent action. We have seen the human impact on health, disease, famine,...

NEW YORK –Mayor Bill de Blasio, Comptroller Stringer, and other trustees of New York City’s pension funds today announced a new goal to double the investments of the NYC Funds in climate change solutions to $4 billion or 2% of the City’s $195 billion pension portfolio...

Over 130 new corporates have made science-based emissions reduction commitments since start of 2018, a 39% increase from the previous year; Nearly a fifth (17%) of Fortune Global 500 companies have now committed to set science-based emissions reduction targets;...

SAN FRANCISCO — At an affiliate event of the Global Climate Action Summit, Nexleaf Analytics announced a new partnership to expand its cloud-based climate platform to measure the usage and impact of clean cookstove technologies. The expanded data platform will...

SAN FRANCISCO: 13/09/2018: Mexico City is the latest city to sign the Green Bond Pledge. The announcement will be made at the Global Climate Action Summit (GCAS) in San Francisco, by Mexico City’s Secretary of Environment, Tanya Müller García, during the High-Level...

One third of C40 Cities network have seen their greenhouse gas emissions fall over a 5 year period achieving at least a 10% reduction on their peak emissions. Data reveals concrete evidence that many cities are on schedule to achieve 2020 milestone crucial to...

$5.6 trillion investor coalition joins forces with over 70 companies to call for zero deforestation in Brazil’s sensitive Cerrado region. Major buyers of forest-risk commodities such as soy, including McDonald’s and Tesco are among the coalition. Investors...

SAN FRANCISCO, CA — Today, at the Global Climate Action Summit (GCAS) in San Francisco, CA, twenty-one companies will announce the launch of the Step Up Declaration, a new alliance dedicated to harnessing the power of emerging technologies and the fourth...

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 11, 2018 — Leaders from the Global Climate Action Summit (GCAS) announced the sponsors who will help ensure that the summit will fulfill its pledge to meet or exceed international sustainability standards for large events. The planning efforts to...

Source Oliver Wyman Thanks to the efforts of a coalition of 16 global banks convened by the UN Environment Finance Initiative, the banking industry has made progress on the arduous task of assessing the risks and opportunities associated with climate change....

Leading CEOs back calls from the Prince of Wales’s Corporate Leaders Group for ambitious targets to inspire transition to a low-carbon economy. SAN FRANCISCO, September 12 – Businesses are unlikely to reduce carbon emissions to zero and deliver the Paris Agreement...

Bloomberg and Brown to unveil roadmap for cities, states and businesses to cut emissions 24% by 2025, within striking distance of 2015 Paris goal San Francisco – As the Global Climate Action Summit begins — where over 4,000 business, city, state and civil society...